welcome august

finally friday
a good week
a normal week
as if i remember what normal is anymore

today i'm defining normal week as: a seven day period of time involving no out of town guests, no mass exodus moving from one residence to another, no scheduled vacation, no weeknight commitments, dinners, birthdays, deaths, hospital visits of any kind.

although i guess a normal week doesn't end with working until 7p and then heading back to work on sunday, but that's how it worked this week. and it got so busy friday night that i hadn't finished this post. oh well.

i worked friday night, managing the renovation of an office suite here at the hospital. i know what you're thinking. friday night AND sunday, during the summer. you signed up for that? are you nuts? well, probably. but signing up to do this is likely going to win me some huge points. and i'm taking of next friday as a trade off. so i think i'm making out ok.

plus staying here late friday made for a good excuse to go out for drinks afterwards. i met up with waveney, kim and steve and headed out for drinks in brighton. atticus met up with us a little later to join in on the festivities. some decent food, mezzacorona wine (sweet!) and a little dancing= fun night out with the gang. thanks guys! :)

saturday was "explore scituate day" for me.

we woke up to dan cohen working on the house- removing more siding in preparation for the new stuff going up. we picked out the new stuff this week. its called "mist" which means absolutely nothing because from that name you're probably thinking its some sort of blue or seafoam or something ridiculous like that... but its a light tan color. tan colored mist? hmmm, well maybe it exists!

we got up and tried to get motivated and as dan got into the shower, the jordan's furniture delivery guys arrived to take away the spare room bed and deliver the new one. it fits so much better in the room and the bed looks beautiful! :)

as they loaded and unloaded, we sorted the bags and boxes of recyclables and returnables to take to the dump [now that we finally got our sticker]. we loaded up the Escape, complete with box of cardboard on top (who knew I had roofracks?!), and headed out. we ran into Uncle Ray at the top of the street and found out where to bring the returnables. then we ran into a union buddy of dan's while returning the cans. they chatted for a bit, and as we pulled out of the driveway, larry pulled in. "its official, i'm a townie" dan said. we used the can money for coffee {mmmm} and dan's new obsession- Dunkin Donuts' hashbrowns.

dan showed me how to get to the post office {where i returned some curtain rods we didn't end up needing} and then how to get to the dump. we unloaded all of the recyclables into their respective bins and learned that we can recycle even more than we thought! so exciting! we bought our Scituate Town Trash bags (overpriced and strangely sized) and were on our way. and for those of you wondering, despite the fact that we are now the residents of 396 clapp road, we did not bring anything home from the dump with us.

next it was off to home depot to buy trash barrels for sorting our trash and recyclables in the basement along with some other odds and ends. i even got dan to come into homegoods with me (while we waited for our pizza). no good finds, but it was nice to browse around and spend the day together.

for such a short weekend, it was a nice once. we spent the evening at matt and krissy's playing Go Fish (or Goat Fish as Uncle Danny liked to call it) with Emelyn, Daniel the Great performed magic tricks for Emelyn, we played with Will who is still under the weather, and chatted and ate with Matt and Kris.

and now its sunday and i'm at work for the foreseeable future. the new office workstations are looking great. the cabling is going in well (got to meet some of dan's work buddies). we still have no power to the area which could be a major disaster but i've got some guys coming up to look at it so i can't freak just yet. (ETA- they came! they're installing! they rock!!!)

ok back to work...